The WORST episodes of Man vs. Wild

Every episode of Man vs. Wild ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Man vs. Wild!

MAN VS. WILD brings seasoned adventurer Bear Grylls face to face with the grueling task of navigating remote locations, sharing invaluable survival strategies along the way.

Last Updated: 2/19/2024Network: DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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Bears Ultimate Survival Guide Part One
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#1 - Bears Ultimate Survival Guide Part One

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/2009

Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places.

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Guatemala
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5.45
105 votes

#2 - Guatemala

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2010

Grylls rappels onto a live volcano in Guatemala, navigates a waterfall in an underground cave, creates a nest to safely sleep in but gets an unwelcome bed buddy, and encounters ancient Mayan ruins.

Directors: Alexis Girardet
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Oregon
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6.11
82 votes

#3 - Oregon

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2009

Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.

Directors: Chris Richards
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Northern Australia
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6.37
116 votes

#4 - Northern Australia

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009

In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.

Directors: David O'Nei
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Working in the Wild
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6.50
57 votes

#5 - Working in the Wild

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2011

Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follow his every step through the world’s wildest environments.

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The Deep South
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6.69
116 votes

#6 - The Deep South

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2008

Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands

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The Inside Story
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6.69
82 votes

#7 - The Inside Story

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2009

The Man vs. Wild crew who follow Grylls on his travels across the globe, tell how it feels to follow in his footsteps and reveal just how they make Man vs. Wild.

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Bear Eats
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6.71
14 votes

#8 - Bear Eats

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/2007

Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable.

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Texas
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6.76
144 votes

#9 - Texas

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2009

In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

Directors: Stephen Shearman
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Western Pacific
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6.80
91 votes

#10 - Western Pacific

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2009

Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.

Directors: Nick White
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Scotland
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6.83
54 votes

#11 - Scotland

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2007

Bear offers survival tips in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park. Included: using moss to purify water; skinning a deer; cooking a rabbit.

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Namibia
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6.87
79 votes

#12 - Namibia

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2008

Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert.

Directors: Chris Richards
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Norway: Edge of Survival
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6.91
143 votes

#13 - Norway: Edge of Survival

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/2011

Bear and his team are in Norway. Armed with the latest technology they'll be creating the harshest conditions possible while sensors monitor how Bear copes trying to survive in one of the world's most beautiful but wettest countries.

Directors: Ben Duncan
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Canadian Rockies
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6.91
86 votes

#14 - Canadian Rockies

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2009

While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.

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Hawaii - Mount Kilauea
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6.92
84 votes

#15 - Hawaii - Mount Kilauea

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2006

On Mount Kilauea, an active volcano, Bear climbs down a rope from a helicopter and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, find water in a lava tube and get honey from a bee's nest.

Directors: Dominic Stobart
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Red Rock Country
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6.95
117 votes

#16 - Red Rock Country

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2011

Bear treks through Southern Utah's Red Rock Country.

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Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part Two
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6.95
117 votes

#17 - Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part Two

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2009

In his ultimate survival guide Grylls takes on dangerous snakes, fishes for catfish using his finger as bait and joins tribes who survive in the worlds toughest terrains, eats raw goats testicles in the Sahara, and hunts porcupines.

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Alaska
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6.96
205 votes

#18 - Alaska

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2009

Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.

Directors: Nick White
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Shooting Survival
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7.00
58 votes

#19 - Shooting Survival

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2010

Behind the scenes with Grylls's crew.

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Romania
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7.00
29 votes

#20 - Romania

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/2009

Grylls heads to Transylvania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.

Directors: Stephen Shearman
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European Alps
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7.00
235 votes

#21 - European Alps

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/2006

Bear Grylls, outfitted with only a knife, water bottle, cup and flint, parachutes into the French Alps, where he builds a snow shelter and explains how to survive a fall into a frozen lake.

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Jungle
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7.03
288 votes

#22 - Jungle

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/30/2007

Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.

Directors: Justin Kelly
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Ireland
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7.05
147 votes

#23 - Ireland

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/3/2008

Grylls jumps from a boat a kilometre off the west coast of Ireland. He travels down the coast before turning inland to cross the bogs. Here he retrieves a sheep carcass from a bog whose skin he uses as a sleeping bag (sheeping bag), a waterproof sack, and a flotation device.

Directors: Scott Tankard
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Yukon
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7.06
50 votes

#24 - Yukon

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/2009

Grylls wraps up warm as he heads to the frozen wastelands of North Canada. He goes underground to search an abandoned mine, and he takes to some fast moving water.

Directors: Nick White
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Borneo Jungle
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7.07
142 votes

#25 - Borneo Jungle

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/2011

In Borneo, Bear heads directly into the wild jungles. Without a place to land his helicopter, he is forced to rappel into the treetops. As the heli peels away, Bear is 100 feet up in the canopy. After finding his way down to the jungle floor, Bear tackles raging waters, big mudslides and deep caves as he fights his way through this impenetrable place.

Directors: David Johnson
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